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Small town best known among cyclists for its river shuttle to Rochefort. The town remained for a long time an important crossing point for crossing the Charente between and the ocean, one of the only crossing points of the Charente with the Saint-Savinien ferry between Taillebourg and the ocean, until construction in 1842 of the Tonnay-Charente Suspension Bridge. The ferry was located at the current marina. The first mention of this ferry in the archives dates from 1477 but it existed well before. While the Rochefort lifting span bridge was put into service, the crossing of the Charente on the ferry stopped on February 5, 1967. The two stone slipways on either side of the river, where a road from Rochefort ended on the right bank, are still visible today at the village level and are used for launching boats. A ferry or ferry boat, the Rohan, has been back in service since June 2013 for the summer period. It has a transport capacity of 12 people including the pilot and 11 passengers on foot or by bike (2-3 Euro). At an altitude of 13 meters, on a spur overlooking the Charente which naturally lends itself to defense, there was a castle with a village enclosed by a surrounding wall like on the other bank at Rochefort. The castle is attested from 1092 with a first siege, and its destruction by a first fire. It is one of the first rocky banks encountered coming from the sea, on the left (south) bank of the Charente. On a seal dated 1383 there is this inscription in Latin: “subissia prima urbs insularum est sub borea” which can be translated as: “Soubise is the first town in the lee of the islands”. This is why in 1665, Jean-Baptiste Colbert proposed to the Duke of Rohan to sell his lordship or exchange it with the king to build a war port to arm and repair ships to protect them from attacks. English, but he refused and the project was finally carried out in Rochefort which is further from the estuary with a smaller draft. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soubise_(Charente-Maritime)

The various imposing bridges that span the Charente river are visible from afar

Destroyed several times at the end of the Hundred Years' Wars (1337-1453) and the Wars of Religion (1560- 1598), the church was partly rebuilt, probably on different occasions. Kept in its original place, the cemetery still adjoins the church. Another cemetery was discovered recently, during the excavations of 2006, under the current place of November 11th. The building has two naves of the same height separated by a row of columns. On the right nave, at the height of the choir, stands a square bell tower with a low pyramidal roof, pierced on its four sides by two twin trefoil windows and surmounted by a weather vane in the shape of a rooster. At the end of the Middle Ages, a sacristy was added to the building, a rare occurrence for rural churches of this period. Two entrance doors adorned with a small triangular pediment open onto each of the naves. We can see in the church 4 statues on plinths: St Nazaire, St Eutrope, St Antoine de Padoue and Ste Eustelie. The high altar, located in the choir of the church, is decorated with a painting dated 1860, “The Virgin and Child” by Hansmann. And which is a gift from Emperor Napoleon Ill and his wife In a display case stands one of the most beautiful models of painted wooden boats in Charente-Maritime. This ship, a 74-gun building that sailed from 1763 to 1806, is a two-decker. It was the restoration in 1986 of the ex-voto boat, then vulgarly called "Le Léon", that enabled the real name to be found under a coat of paint. It is likely that this model (H: 117 cm. I: 160 cm) was built after 1815 by a former sailor from Zelé After months of restoration, he returned to the side aisle at the end of 1990. Some important dates, known relating to the church of Saint-Nazaire: August 21, 1775, blessing of the bell by Monsignor Pierre Marivaux, dean prior, archpriest of Soubise. The godfather and godmother were the sieur Gilles Huet de la Brousse, receiver of the King's farms in Rochefort and Dame Jeanne Perrine Murie !, widow Arondel, postmaster at Rochefort. Said bell was melted in La Rochelle by the Sieur François La Vouzelle, founder. During the troubled times of the Revolution, the church was no longer a place of worship, but it had become a great republican gathering place: public platform, tribunal for the committee of surveillance and public health, municipal elections, elections of the National Guard companies ... On November 11, 1793, the commune of Saint-Nazaire was renamed to take the name of "Commune Marat". On February 28, 1798, in this church took place "the great Feast of the Sovereignty of the People", civic feast, described in the archives of the municipality. May 11, 1920, election of the marble slab and its stone frame of Crazannes, on which will be engraved the names of the dead of the 1914-1918 war.